William O. Chapman

Jacob and Margaret Burns Chapman had two children. These children were William O. (born about 1782 married Frances F. Wilson 1805 and died Dec. 25, 1874), and Jacob Jr. (born 1788 and died about 1855).

William O. Chapman, son of Jacob and Margaret, as noted above married Frances F. Wilson in 1805. Frances was born in Virginia about 1787. Their marriage is recorded in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

William and Frances had five children. These children were

• Margaret J. (born about 1805 and married Jeremiah Butler),
• William C. (married Velicity V. ?),
• Jacob (married Mary "Polly" Hamrick, then Sarah J. Jarrett and then another Mary Hamrick),
• Andrew Jackson (married Rebecca Margaret Wood and then Nancy Keziah Hall, born c. 1838, on January 5, 1858, in Braxton County, Va., (now W.Va.), and
• John C. (married Ludy Ann Bowman, Julia Ann Williams, Sarah J. ? and Alice Ray). (wives in question)

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William O. Chapman, son of Jacob and Margaret, as noted above married Frances F. Wilson in 1805. Frances was born in Virginia about 1787. Their marriage is recorded in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

William and Frances had five children. These children were Margaret J. (born about 1805 and married Jeremiah Butler), William C. (married Velicity V. ?), Jacob (married Mary "Polly" Hamrick, then Sarah J. Jarrett and then another Mary Hamrick), Andrew Jackson (married Rebecca Margaret Wood and then Nancy Keziah Hall, born c. 1838, on January 5, 1858, in Braxton County, Va., (now W.Va.), and John C. (married Ludy Ann Bowman, Julia Ann Williams, Sarah J. ? and Alice Ray). Janet Reeves of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a great grand daughter of John C. Chapman, questions the validity of John's wives. Her data raises doubts about John's marriage to Lucy Ann Bowman and Alice Ray. Using a Philip Chapman Family Bible, her information shows that John married Julia Ann Williams July 1, 1847, who died on February 16, 1855. He then married Sarah Collison on January 18, 1856. And a photo provided by Janet (shown below) of the grave marker for John and Sara shows that he did preceed her in death. Hence the doubt cast on John's marriage to Alice Ray.

William O. Chapman and his family are identified by one source as living in 1835 on Elk River, probably close to the present limits of Clay County, West Virginia. Another source states that Margaret J. Chapman, William's daughter, was living at Red House Run on the Elk River when she married Jeremiah Butler in Nicholas County, Virginia (now W.Va.), on August 19, 1825. Jeremiah Butler, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Butler, was born in New York about 1795 and had come with his family to the Nicholas County area no later than 1825.

http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/The_Chapman_Family_-_...

http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/nicholas/vitals/marriage/grooms.txt

http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/nicholas/vitals/marriage/grooms.txt

CHAPMAN, Jacob BURGESS, Rachel 15 AUG 1832 CHAPMAN, William O. RADER, Ophelia 15 MAR 1838

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Chapman_(120)

http://www.wvgenweb.org/nicholas/marriages/marraigeswm.htm

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